Maybe Baby

by Elaine Fox

Not Looking For Mr. Right? Dr. Delaney Poole thinks Harp Cove, Maine, will be the perfect place to settle down and raise her infant daughter -- though she can't say why. Something wonderful happened in this charming, two-spotlight coastal town on a previous summer night, when a sexy stranger stole his way briefly into her heart and then moved on. But now single-mom Delaney has to invent a husband in order to deflect small town gossip -- buying masculine...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0380817837
• ISBN13: 9780380817832
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: Avon Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

cute, engaging!!!!

Delaney on a job interview in a small town in Maine, indulges in a one night stand (something she has never done) with the 'Magic Man' and despite precautious she ends up expecting. Suddenly, she regrets they did not bother to observed prelimaries - like exchanging names and telephone numbers.Even though she is facing being life as new doctor, she quickly adapts and enjoys her role as new mother. 6 months after the baby is born she moves back to the small down in Maine, still expecting to never see the baby's father since she believed he was passing through. Instead, as she quickly discovers since he is her first patient, that he has always lived in the town. Since the 34 year old father of her child is standing there with his 19 year bimbo cheerleader girlfriend, she panics and says she is married. Worse, she discovers he is the landlord of her new residence!The lie grows and grows until she finds herself buying clothes and creating magazine subscripts in the 'husbands' name, trying to convince Jack that she is married.It is often a little stretched, and you really wonder if someone would go to these extremes, but Fox's writing makes the whole thing enjoyable!

Good hero; good book.

Delaney Poole finds herself pregnant after a one-night stand with gorgeous Jack Shepherd. It happens when she is investigating one possible location for her residency with a man she thinks is on vacation there. She comes back to Harp Cove, Maine, over a year later with baby Emily only to find that Jack is her landlord! She panics, and blurts out to Jack thatshe's married, and waiting for her husband to join her. She scrambles to keep her story straight from then on. Delaney is functioning on fear. She doesn't want anything in her daughter's life that could hurt her, and she has heard so much that indicates Jack would be a bad father and a reluctant one. Jack is stunned that Delaney is Harp Cove's new doctor and is happy to see her again. But he doesn't really believe that she's married. She talks about her husband too much and also has a tendency to forget his name.... He senses Delaney's fear, and wants to soothe her in his arms. But how would he feel if he knew that she fears his involvement in their daughter's life? Fear leads Delaney to a foolish act that she is forced tocompound with sometimes hilarious results. Jack doesn't deserve the treatment he receives, and he is a great hero. This book will make you laugh, sigh and squirm on your way to a satisfying ending.

Hilareous AND Heartwarming

I love funny stuff but very few writers have been able to grab me with humorous romance because I don't like a bunch of emotionless one-liners. Elaine Fox has a brilliant comic voice, smoothly combining genuine, heart-tugging emotion with laugh-out-loud comedy and irony. If you like intelligence and wit with your romance, you'll love Elaine Fox!

Fast and funny

I couldn't disagree more with the Publisher's Weekly review stating that this book won't gain Ms. Fox a broader readership. This is the first Elaine Fox novel I've read, but it certainly won't be the last. Many romance novels that try to blend in comedy often fall flat, but I laughed out loud while reading this book, particularly in the last 75 pages, where all the story lines converge. I appreciated that the "hero" of this novel was a regular guy with a bit of a problem with responsibility--I don't know who created the convention that romanctic heroes have to be millionaires, cops, or soldiers, but this novel defies it brilliantly. I also thought that the romance was not overshadowed by the farce--the beach scene at the beginning of the book is among the most romantic I've ever read. The sparks generated by that scene are enough to carry readers through the shenanigans that follow. I'm looking forward avidly to Ms. Fox's next contemporary romance.

A humerous story

With one year to go in her residency, Dr. Delaney Poole visits Harp Cove, Maine for the first time because she wants to practice medicine there. The town with its winter population of five thousand seems perfect to Delaney. So she prays that the National Health Service agrees to allow her to pay off her medical debt to them by assigning her there for three years following completion of her residency. Perhaps it is her elation over the town, but Delaney shares an intimacy with Sailboat Jack. One year later, Delaney and her infant Emily return so that the former can set up her medical practice. However, she is stunned when Jack Shepard of Sailboat Jack fame enters her office due to an accident he just suffered. She is shocked to learn he is not from Cape Cod, but a local who happens to be her landlord as well as her baby?s father. Unable to cope, Delaney begins a series of fabrications that soon prove the adage ?oh what a web we weave when we first deceive? especially when love further obfuscates the situation. Any novel that can include a reference to the Silver Surfer has to be admired even if MAYBE BABY requires reader acceptance on why Delaney escalates her house of lies. Once taking that leap, readers will find the humorous story line quite genial even with its serious undertone that rural America needs doctors. The lead couple is an alluring duo in spite of the mendacious Delaney?s growing fears of discovery. Elaine Fox furnishes the audience a lively contemporary romance.Harriet Klausner